Kentucky Basketball uniforms should not honor Secretariat

Since 2017, Kentucky Basketball has donned some pretty awful jerseys on the court in honor of Secretariat. Why won’t Mitch Barnhart allow a change?

Kentucky Basketball is about to enter its fourth season wearing ghastly checkered uniforms. It’s quite appalling. Will we ever change clothes from the god-awful Tennessee mimicry to something newer and inherently bluer?

To be quite frank, we have one of the worst uniform combinations in the entire sport. It’s like the referee of the Indy 500 slapped our jerseys with the finish flag and Mitch Barnhart came in and tossed some blue paint on. What his obsession with this horrendous jersey design? They are nearly universally disliked.

But Mitch Barnhart cares not a single bit. The average fan barfs at the mere sight of the current uniform design. He doesn’t care. That isn’t surprising. Though he’s performed as an impeccable athletic director overall, he often fails to accommodate the common fan, but that’s an entirely different discussion.

And for whatever strange reason, Barnhart believes legendary racehorse and triple-crown winner Secretariat should be honored by Kentucky’s basketball program, but how? Well, since its silks featured a checkered pattern, Mitch repeated it on the basketball cloth. Here’s the catch: Secretariat isn’t even from Kentucky!

The greatest horse-racing state in America chose to honor a single horse via its basketball program–which is the GOAT in its own regard–that isn’t even from Kentucky. I read that sentence back to myself and it makes even less sense than when I wrote it. What the hell!

I know this is an incredibly random post here on WBN but I’ve spent today watching some highlights from the past few seasons and our abhorrent jersey combo threw virtual rocks at my eyes. I was in the Bahamas, we wore freakin cool uniforms there. Black ones, pure blue and white ones. And guess what? That was the best basketball we played all season. It makes you wonder.

Get with the program Mitch. We haven’t landed a top-five recruit or advanced to the Final Four since suiting up in checkerboard. Hey fans, do you want changes? Do you want national championships? Elite recruits? Well, according to my haphazard statistical study, we’ve locked ourself out of those perks by wearing ugly jerseys (this isn’t factual, in case you didn’t catch on).

Let’s start a petition. Make Kentucky Basketball Great Again (checking…yeah, Kentucky is mostly Trump country so I should be good.)